Historic Tennessee People

Loretta Lynn and crowd in Nashville, Tennessee.

Loretta Lynn and crowd in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

Ida B. Wells Barnett

Ida B. Wells Barnett

New Mexico Bad Boy – Clay Allison

John Barclay Armstrong – Texas Lawman

Cullen Montgomery Baker – A Very Bad Man

Ida Wells Barnett – Educator & Advocate

Daniel Boone – The Kentucky Pioneer

Edward “Ned” Bushyhead – Cherokee Lawman

Jesse Chisholm – Blazing a Trail

David “Davy” Crockett – Frontier Hero

Davy Crockett – Gunfighter & Outlaw

William R. Cruger – Southern Lawman

Joseph Dickson – First Known Mountain Man

Mary Fields – Female Stage Driver

Buck Garrett – Gunfighter and Lawman

Josiah Gregg – Trader, Explorer & Writer

John Coffee Hays – Soldier and Texas Ranger

Samuel Houston – Texas President

George “Machine Gun” Kelly – Prohibition Era Outlaw

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick – Great Cowboy

George Maledon – Prince of Hangmen

Lucretia “Aunt Lou” Marchbanks – Greatest Cook in the Black Hills

Commodore Perry Owens – Gunfighting Lawman

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton – Leading the Exodusters

Mary E. Walker – Brave Surgeon of the Civil War

 

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.

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